Something really weird happened. We were walking into Ultra Music Festival, and just as we came around a corner, we saw a giant boombox blasting 808s and emitting smoke. We got closer to see what was up. Turns out, it was the UMF Radio stage, but it was overrun with…
A really great party is like science. If things go well, you’ve got to repeat the experiment. Hard’s Gary Richards (AKA Destructo) knows this to be true. So he’s brought three editions of his HARD Miami shindigs for Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013. And last night, Destructo…
Last night, all of Miami went hard as fuck. But only Grand Central was goin’ Hard Miami, shakin’ our rumps till early morning. And the beat freaks at this bass-filled, trap-moombah-dub night didn’t give a damn if the floor was dirty, they were gonna make their asses touch the ground…
Spring Breakers Director Harmony Korine on the Darkness Beneath College Partying
What’s the one place on Earth so magical that you can see titties, butt cheeks, and creepy man-horses, all while wearing the contents of a sixth-grade girl’s friendship bracelet box? That’s right! Ultra Music Festival, the land to which people from all over the world travel to show off their…
At $299.95 before taxes, a three-day general admission pass to Ultra Music Festival is an absolute bargain if you’re using papi’s credit card. And when you consider the fact that UMF introduced free Wi-Fi this year (presumably to make it easier to FaceTime from the fest), how could you not…
Damn, Ultra Music Festival is a mad house. Everywhere you look, it’s neon titties, the bottom half of an ass, or some kind of sexy rabbit hoppin’ around with a lollipop in her cheek. Last year, we introduced “The Seven Ravers You Meet at Ultra Music Festival.” But this time,…
To most of the world, spring break seems like a lot of fun, but Miamians understand the dark side. Damn college kids pass through for a week to drink liquor, trash the streets, and wear T-shirts announcing, “I survived spring break,” gleefully blind to the fact that they are the…
Remember when Eminem was all “nobody listens to techno”? Lolz. Guess Moby won that battle. “Without Me” topped charts just ten years ago. But in the past decade, pop culture has made a complete 180-degree turn. It’s like Tommie Sunshine told us: “You could go outside right now into a…
Tickets to Ultra Music Festival: $299.95. Winter Music Conference passes: $475. Seeing all your favorite DJs and producers: priceless. No, it literally won’t cost you anything. The best-kept secret of the whole WMC and Miami Music Week party train: You can catch some of the hottest names in the game…
Juicy Beach 2013, With Robbie Rivera, Bob Sinclar, Cosmic Gate at Nikki Beach March 21
Hard Miami and Hard Miami Pool Party During WMC March 20-22
Seizure music, death electro, and derpstep. Those are the extreme EDM genres Knife Party’s Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen use to describe their music, which reveals a couple of things about these Australian dudes: (1) they don’t take themselves too seriously, and (2) they dig dangerous fun. After bum-rushing the…
Boys Noize and Skrillex’s Dog Blood at Ultra Music Festival 2013
Tommie Sunshine at Ultra Music Festival 2013
Carl Cox at Ultra Music Festival 2013
Top Five Trap Stars at Ultra Music Festival 2013
Ten Best Pool Parties During WMC and Miami Music Week 2013
“A little sun can bring out your dark side.” And that’s nothing we don’t know. But it’s also the tag line of Harmony Korine’s upcoming teen-flick-gone-mad Spring Breakers. You know, the one starring a gangster James Franco and a barely dressed Selena Gomez, hitting theaters Friday, March 22. Korine, who…
Winter Music Conference used to be a whole week of industry insiders schmoozing it up and trading records, but now it’s all about the pool parties. And does that really bother anyone? If so, you’ve probably never actually oiled up for one of these sexy things. So stop being a…
Seizure music, death electro, and derpstep. Those are the extreme EDM genres Knife Party’s Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen use to describe their music, which reveals a couple of things about these Australian dudes: (1) they don’t take themselves too seriously and (2) they dig dangerous fun. After bumrushing the…
Ultra is more than an annual music festival. It’s an EDM institution. Just like British house legend Carl Cox. Every year at UMF, the Carl Cox and Friends arena (which has been with the fest for its entire 15-year history) gets bigger, better, and brighter. But it doesn’t only exist…
